On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 09/26/2017 09:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> + ret = __builtin_strlen(q); > > > I think this is not correct. Fortified strlen called here on purpose. If sizeof q is known at compile time > and 'q' contains not-null fortified strlen() will panic. Ok, got it. >> if (size) { >> size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret; >> if (__builtin_constant_p(len) && len >= p_size) >> >> The problem is apparently that the fortified strlcpy calls the fortified strlen, >> which in turn calls strnlen and that ends up calling the extern '__real_strnlen' >> that gcc cannot reduce to a constant expression for a constant input. > > > Per my observation, it's the code like this: > if () > fortify_panic(__func__); > > > somehow prevent gcc to merge several "struct i2c_board_info info;" into one stack slot. > With the hack bellow, stack usage reduced to ~1,6K: 1.6k is also what I see with my patch, or any other approach I tried that changes string.h. With the split up em28xx_dvb_init() function (and without changes to string.h), I got down to a few hundred bytes for the largest handler. > --- > include/linux/string.h | 4 ---- > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h > index 54d21783e18d..9a96ff3ebf94 100644 > --- a/include/linux/string.h > +++ b/include/linux/string.h > @@ -261,8 +261,6 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *p) > if (p_size == (size_t)-1) > return __builtin_strlen(p); > ret = strnlen(p, p_size); > - if (p_size <= ret) > - fortify_panic(__func__); > return ret; > } > > @@ -271,8 +269,6 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE __kernel_size_t strnlen(const char *p, __kernel_size_t maxlen) > { > size_t p_size = __builtin_object_size(p, 0); > __kernel_size_t ret = __real_strnlen(p, maxlen < p_size ? maxlen : p_size); > - if (p_size <= ret && maxlen != ret) > - fortify_panic(__func__); > return ret; I've reduced it further to this change: --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path) #define __FORTIFY_INLINE extern __always_inline __attribute__((gnu_inline)) #define __RENAME(x) __asm__(#x) -void fortify_panic(const char *name) __noreturn __cold; +void fortify_panic(const char *name) __cold; void __read_overflow(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond size of object passed as 1st parameter"); void __read_overflow2(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter"); void __read_overflow3(void) __compiletime_error("detected read beyond size of object passed as 3rd parameter"); I don't immediately see why the __noreturn changes the behavior here, any idea? >> Not sure if that change is the best fix, but it seems to address the problem in >> this driver and probably leads to better code in other places as well. >> > > Probably it would be better to solve this on the strlcpy side, but I haven't found the way to do this right. > Alternative solutions: > > - use memcpy() instead of strlcpy(). All source strings are smaller than I2C_NAME_SIZE, so we could > do something like this - memcpy(info.type, "si2168", sizeof("si2168")); > Also this should be faster. This would be very similar to the patch I posted at the start of this thread to use strncpy(), right? I was hoping that changing strlcpy() here could also improve other users that might run into the same situation, but stay below the 2048-byte stack frame limit. > - Move code under different "case:" in the switch(dev->model) to the separate function should help as well. > But it might be harder to backport into stables. Agreed, I posted this in earlier versions of the patch series, see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9601025/ The new patch was a result of me trying to come up with a less invasive version to make it easier to backport, since I would like to backport the last patch in the series that depends on all the earlier ones. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html